no more Gasoline in Portugal

[Buleste]

There are some fuel strikes to hit the U.K. soon. Not for any moral reason like the high price of fuel but because the oil companies are making such vast profits yet aren't passing it down to the workers. And of course panic buying is setting in as once again the British go in headless chicken mode.

[AlexJ]

There are some fuel strikes to hit the U.K. soon. Not for any moral reason like the high price of fuel but because the oil companies are making such vast profits yet aren't passing it down to the workers. And of course panic buying is setting in as once again the British go in headless chicken mode.

Was in a fuel station yesterday (because the needle was at 'E' not because I was panic buying ) and thought it quite amusing that the most prominently displayed newspaper in front of the kiosk building had the headline in giant letters "PANIC STATIONS":



Yep, that'll calm everyone down.

[Buleste]

Ah the good old British media. Adding fuel to the fires of paranoia for hundreds of years.

[Tiago]

Everything is backing up to normal, we now have fuel again.
But is was complicated, no fuel for 2 days, left to a break down in products on the supermarket, and a bit of everything that needs transportation...
But now looks like is getting back to normal.

[Sharingan]

It's time to harness the power of dilithium crystals and anti-matter!

Seriously, whether oil production is still going strongly or not, the supplies will eventually dry out. My conspiracy theory is that governments and oil companies actually do have access to alternative and viable other sources of fuel already, but, in order to milk profits from oil to the very last drop, they just aren't going to reveal anything until the last moment.

[Harrison]

I also think this. If they wanted too they could easily accelerate the development of alternative power sources or fuel, but due to the huge amount of money the oil industry makes they are never going to start putting serious money into the development of something that would in effect cause them to lose more. Much like tobacco and alcohol. While the governments are making so much money from them they won't get banned.

[Buleste]

Don't forget the political impact it would have on all oil producing countries if oil became useless. Imagine Russia having most of it's income erradicated by alternative power or Iran and Iraq. World go BOOOM!!!!